Healing The Shame That Binds You

Author : John Bradshaw
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780757303234

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Healing the Shame that Binds You by John Bradshaw Pdf

This classic book, written 17 years ago but still selling more than 13,000 copies every year, has been completely updated and expanded by the author. "I used to drink," writes John Bradshaw,"to solve the problems caused by drinking. The more I drank to relieve my shame-based loneliness and hurt, the more I felt ashamed." Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion, co-dependency, addiction and drive to superachieve that breaks down the family and destroys personal lives. This book has helped millions identify their personal shame, understand the underlying reasons for it, address these root causes and release themselves from the shame that binds them to their past failures.

Author : John Bradshaw
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780804150385

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Homecoming by John Bradshaw Pdf

Are you outwardly successful but inwardly do you feel like a big kid? Do you aspire to be a loving parent but all too often “lose it” in hurtful ways? Do you crave intimacy but sometimes wonder if it’s worth the struggle? Or are you plagued by constant vague feelings of anxiety or depression? If any of this sounds familiar, you may be experiencing the hidden but damaging effects of a painful childhood—carrying within you a “wounded inner child” that is crying out for attention and healing. In this powerful book, John Bradshaw shows how we can learn to nurture that inner child, in essence offering ourselves the good parenting we needed and longed for. Through a step-by-step process of exploring the unfinished business of each developmental stage, we can break away from destructive family rules and roles and free ourselves to live responsibly in the present. Then, says Bradshaw, the healed inner child becomes a source of vitality, enabling us to find new joy and energy in living. Homecoming includes a wealth of unique case histories and interactive techniques, including questionnaires, letter-writing to the inner child, guided meditations, and affirmations. Pioneering when introduced, these classic therapies are now being validated by new discoveries in attachment research and neuroscience. No one has ever brought them to a popular audience more effectively and inspiringly than John Bradshaw.

Author : John Bradshaw
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781558744271

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Bradshaw On: The Family by John Bradshaw Pdf

Analyzes the structure of families, examines the unexpresssed rules used to raise children, and discusses family violence, child abuse, and dysfunctional families

Author : John Bradshaw
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996-04-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780553374988

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Family Secrets by John Bradshaw Pdf

What you don't know can hurt you— but it can also lead to self-acceptance and healing. Family Secrets gives you the tools you need to understand your family—and yourself—in an entirely new way. In his bestselling books and compelling PBS specials, John Bradshaw has transformed our understanding of how we are shaped by our families. Now join him on this fascinating journey of discovery, which starts with your life today and takes you back through the conflicts, the strengths, and the weaknesses of your parents’ generation—and even your grandparents’. Using a powerful technique for exploring your “family tree,” you’ll trace the visible and invisible patterns that have influenced you. You’ll learn about family secrets that are healthy and necessary, and also about the secrets that can limit your wholeness and freedom—even if you don’t know they exist. This work is sometimes painful, but it is always enlightening—filled with the kind of “aha” moments and realizations that make everything fall into place. With John Bradshaw’s guidance, you will come to a new appreciation and acceptance of yourself. You will also be able to build more open, honest, and loving relationships with the people who matter most.

Author : Ronald Potter-Efron,Patricia Potter-Efron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781592858460

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Letting Go of Shame by Ronald Potter-Efron,Patricia Potter-Efron Pdf

Letting Go of Shame: Understanding How Shame Affects Your Life helps to explain the emotion of shame and its impact on our self-image and relationships. As we identify shame and use recovery skills to work through it, Letting Go of Shame: Understanding How Shame Affects Your Like helps to explain the emotion of shame and its impact on our self-image and relationships. The authors offer us a way that we can personalize a plan of action to help build our self-esteem, and they suggest exercises to help us identify our feelings of shame.

Author : Oliver Cooper, Jr.
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1505315565

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Toxic Shame by Oliver Cooper, Jr. Pdf

• Do you have low self-esteem? • When you are in a relationship, do you feel as though you are not enough? • Do you put up with bad behaviour? • Are you obsessed with self development? • Do you believe that you are unlovable? • Are you always self conscious? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you could be carrying toxic shame.Toxic Shame - Is Toxic Shame Defining Your Life? Looks into what can happen when someone is carry toxic shame. While someone might not be aware of their toxic shame, it can still end up defining their life. This book covers over twenty different ways in which toxic shame can negatively affect someone's life: from how they talk to themselves to their relationships, to if they feel they belong and to how they feel about themselves and many other areas.

Author : Merle A. Fossum,Marilyn J. Mason
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989-05-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780393711585

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Facing Shame: Families in Recovery by Merle A. Fossum,Marilyn J. Mason Pdf

"This book will be helpful to all practitioners of psychological services and to all persons who wish to understand their dilemnas better." —Virginia M. Satir Families that return for treatment time and again often have problems that seem unrelated—such as compulsive, addictive, or abusive behaviors—but that are linked by an underlying process of shame. Comparing the shame-bound family system with the respectful family system, Fossum and Mason outline the assumptions underlying their depth approach to family therapy and take the reader step by step through the stages of therapy. Case examples are used to illustrate the process.

Author : John Bradshaw
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Inner child
ISBN : 0749910542

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Homecoming by John Bradshaw Pdf

In Homecoming John Bradshaw one of the world's leading figures in the field of psychology and recovery, explains his revolutionary techniques to reveal the inner child.He believes that the wounds we receive during childhood and adolescence can continue to contaminate our adult lives. His methods explained clearly in this book, help people to reach back to the child inside and heal those wound.Homecoming includes unique questionnaires which allow readers to work through John Bradshaw's world-famous inner child course themselves. There are specifically designed exercises that allow you to reclaim and nurture your inner child, so that you as an adult can grow and move on. 'Three things are striking about inner child work' says John Bradshaw. 'The speed with which people change the depth of that change, and the power and creativity that can result when the wounds from the past are healed For more information on John Bradshaw please visit www.johnbradshaw.com

Author : John Bradshaw
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780804150392

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Creating Love by John Bradshaw Pdf

“Why are so many of us at times completely baffled by a relationship? How can we think we know someone so well and admit in the end that we hardly knew that person at all? Why do many people who work diligently and strenuously to gain wholeness and balance still feel so frustrated about having a fulfilling relationship? Why have so many people given up on love?”—from the Prologue John Bradshaw’s bestselling books and compelling PBS series have touched and changed millions of lives. Now, in Creating Love, he offers us a new way to understand our most crucial relationships—with our romantic partners and spouses, with our parents and children, with friends and co-workers, with ourselves, and with God. Bradshaw’s compassionate approach shows that many of us have been literally “entranced” by past experiences of counterfeit love, so we unknowingly re-create patterns that can never fulfill us. Here he provides both the insights and the precise tools we need to keep those destructive patterns from repeating in the present. And then he shows how we can open ourselves to the soul-building work of real love—and create healthy, loving relationships where we can be fully ourselves in every part of our lives.

Author : John Bradshaw
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Integrity
ISBN : 9780553095920

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Reclaiming Virtue by John Bradshaw Pdf

The best-selling author of Creating Love sets out to redefine what it means to live a moral life in today's world by helping readers reclaim and cultivate their inborn moral intelligence by developing one's instincts for goodness in childhood and nurturing them through one's adult life to promote good character and moral responsibility.

Author : Naomi Carr
Publisher : Huntson Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781989165478

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Uprooting Shame and Guilt by Naomi Carr Pdf

I hear you. I see you. You matter. Every child yearns to hear these words, as does the child within us all. But what if the essence of Self is repressed by childhood conditioning before life hardly begins? Being denied the ability to think and feel for oneself prevents the child from evolving into adulthood unscathed, instead weighed down with fear and anxiety. Uprooting Shame and Guilt unravels the author’s journey in extracting herself from childhood trauma and dogma, finding refuge in the power of the mind and freedom from outdated beliefs. No stone is left unturned as she exposes the most vulnerable parts of her life and her stored shame and guilt accumulated during her upbringing. She hopes her story will help others find the courage to confront their own trauma and step into a life of their own design.

Author : Gershen Kaufman
Publisher : Schenkman Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015028404690

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Shame by Gershen Kaufman Pdf

Author : Michelle Chalfant
Publisher : Michelle Chalfant
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999892606

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The Adult Chair by Michelle Chalfant Pdf

The Adult Chair is more than a book, or a tool, or a process. It is an entirely new way to see your world, your relationships, your career, and your life.

Author : Beverly Engel
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781626251014

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It Wasn't Your Fault by Beverly Engel Pdf

Shame is one of the most destructive of human emotions. If you suffered childhood physical or sexual abuse, you may experience such intense feelings of shame that it almost seems to define you as a person. In order to begin healing, it’s important for you to know that it wasn’t your fault. In this gentle guide, therapist and childhood abuse expert Beverly Engel presents a mindfulness and compassion-based therapeutic approach to help you overcome the debilitating shame that keeps you tied to the past. By following the step-by-step exercises in this book, you’ll gain a greater understanding of the root cause of your shame. And by cultivating compassion toward yourself, you will begin to heal and move past your painful experiences. Recent studies show that trauma survivors, particularly those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from abuse, can greatly benefit from incorporating elements of self-compassion into their treatment. Furthermore, the practice of self-compassion has been shown to decrease PTSD symptoms, including, self-criticism, thought suppression, and rumination. This book is based on the author’s powerful and effective Compassion Cure program. With this book, you will develop the skills needed to finally put a stop the crippling self-blame that keeps you from moving on and being happy. You’ll learn to focus on your strengths, your courage, and your extraordinary ability to survive. Most of all, you’ll learn to replace shame with its counter emotion—pride.

Author : Patricia A. DeYoung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317560890

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Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame by Patricia A. DeYoung Pdf

Chronic shame is painful, corrosive, and elusive. It resists self-help and undermines even intensive psychoanalysis. Patricia A. DeYoung’s cutting-edge book gives chronic shame the serious attention it deserves, integrating new brain science with an inclusive tradition of relational psychotherapy. She looks behind the myriad symptoms of shame to its relational essence. As DeYoung describes how chronic shame is wired into the brain and developed in personality, she clarifies complex concepts and makes them available for everyday therapy practice. Grounded in clinical experience and alive with case examples, Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame is highly readable and immediately helpful. Patricia A. DeYoung’s clear, engaging writing helps readers recognize the presence of shame in the therapy room, think through its origins and effects in their clients’ lives, and decide how best to work with those clients. Therapists will find that Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame enhances the scope of their practice and efficacy with this client group, which comprises a large part of most therapy practices. Challenging, enlightening, and nourishing, this book belongs in the library of every shame-aware therapist.